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Feature 234:  118-122 South Main Street (in 2011)

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Feature 234: 118-122 South Main Street (in 2011)

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Classification: Contributing.
Historic Name: LaClede Hotel.
Architectural Style: Commercial.
Construction Date: ca. 1880/ca. 1906/1949.
Period 4 of Harry S Truman's Life: Attaining National Prominence, 1934-1953.
Tax Identification: 26-230-16-16.
Legal Description: Old Town, part of lot 69.
Description: Contributing one-story brick commercial building; rectangular in shape; flat roof; large plate glass display windows on east-facing facade; buff brick on facade. The building contains space for three stores; each with its own address. The building is located near the middle of the block, one-half block south of the Courthouse; commercial buildings adjoin on both the north and south sides.
• Alterations: The building was probably altered in the 1960s.
History/Significance: The LaClede Hotel, possibly built around 1880 or earlier, stood on the site of the present building in the 1880s and 1890s. A dining room for the hotel occupied the southern one-third of the ground floor. The building may have sustained some damage during the February 1906 fire that almost totally destroyed the neighboring building at 114-116 South Main Street [Feature 231].
By 1908, the second floor had been converted to furnished rooms rented by Jacob T. Kresge (known as the "Baltimore Hotel" in 1911). Around that time, the ground floor served as the location of three stores: A bakery, the Excelsior (at 118), a grocery (at 120), and a ten-cent store (at 122 South Main Street). In the mid-1920s, a large "produce house" with stone and concrete walls and a concrete floor was constructed in the rear of this building. And, by 1930, the entire ground floor store space was devoted to the sale of groceries and produce: W.J. Campbell & Sons produce (at 118) and Byron C. Harder grocer (at 120 South Main Street). The building was reconstructed in 1949. In 1950, an electric company and business office machine shop occupied the building.

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